Twilight Street Heroic Scale

[joroas]

Anyone used this from RPG Now and is it as good as it says on the box?  I find the RPG Now site hard to use as the links don't go to where they oughtta.

I have a load of Steve Barber and EM-4 figures and Ledo vehicles to use with this as a .45 adventure background.

[whisperin_al]

I have made and used quite a few of the Twilight Street buildings and found them a very useful way of providing an urban streetscape easily and quickly.  Obviously they're never going to have the heft or relief of scratchbuilt or resin pieces but they're considerably quicker to build and cheaper!

Here's a couple of examples:

[Cory]

Good job putting those together, but the stores look somewhat too modern for the 20's and 30's.

[joroas]

Lovely, thanks for the view, I didn't expect that. They do look a bit modern, but for £5 they are okay, and this is fantasy. What vehicles do you use?

[whisperin_al]

The stores are a little modern but I do use them for modern gaming too and despite the Microtactix buildings being cheap and light they do take up space!  Some of the other buildings are better I suspect (like the tenement building) but since I had these ones made up.  I have Twilight Street and Twilight Street 2 sets and the buildings are a mixture with some more obviously new and some older.

The vehicles are Matchbox Models of Yesteryear which seem to me to be OK scale-wise but that's always a matter for the individual.  I find the MoY cars going cheap on eBay mostly.

[Luckyjoe]

Hi, I just saw this thread and noticed a small problem. Those nice looking buildings Whisperin Al posted are the regular Twilight Streets buildings, not the Twilight Streets Heroic Scale. I have both. The Twilight Streets Heroic Scale are larger and a couple of them are better for 1920s and 30's.

Luckyjoe

[Argonor]

True - the heroic scale ones are better scaled for 28 mm, whereas the 'standard' scale are more true 25 mm. I have the free samples of both types (and the Heroic Scale set bought ans stored away on my PC).

But for Pulp I'm going to purchase the 'Mean Streets' and 'Mean Sets' from the Virtual Armchair General. True Chigago buildings and interiors.

They also have a range of Victorian New York buildings (Gangs of NY)...

[joroas]

I looked at them, but the price for lots of them is horrendous, but did I read it right that they have interiors?

[Argonor]

No, the buildings do not have interiors - but the 'Mean Sets' are meant to be 'movie set' interiors. They do not actually fit into the buildings, but you can cut scene to interiors from the action in the streets.

And yes, they are somewhat pricey, and you need foam board to back them. But I like them. And they're still cheaper than resin, plus you can easily repair any damage (if you buy the pdfs as I'm going to - Pat Wilson is converting them into a set of A4 on my demand, so I do not have to worry about them fitting on my printer  - nice for other non-US residents, too, I guess). The Twilight Street buildings are very nice too (as is Worldworks Games' Mayhem series), and I'm just being a cranky old lady about the timescape 

Now you have me going - I really need to get home and print out a couple of TS/HS buildings and get them assembled tonight. Maybe some modelling will help me back on the painting track again, who knows... 

[joroas]

There is always too much to do and too little time...........

[whisperin_al]

Luckyjoe is right the pictures I posted are of the Twilight Streets buildings (sorry if that wasn't clear from the post) - I hadn't realised that the "Heroic Scale" ones were actually a different scale as the standard Twilight Street buildings do come with both size squares for the roofs.

Sorry ... my bad

[joroas]

No, don't apologise they gave me an idea of what they looked like.  The newer ones look much nicer and not bad for £5.  They have a lovely reflection in the windows.